ABSTRACT
The role of traumatic events, especially relational traumas, in eating disorders should be considered as an important point in the process of psychological diagnosis and psychotherapy of eating disorders. Documenting, based on the literature, the role of trauma in the development of body image disorders and anti-health eating behaviors, the author additionally presents the results of own research showing a relationship between the deficits in the secure attachment style (the presence of various situations of emotional deficits and emotional abandonment by caregivers in childhood) and the occurrence of restrictive eating behaviors in women with restrictive anorexia as well as the relationship between the experience of sexual and physical abuse and bulimic behaviors among women with bulimia and bulimic anorexia. Analyzing these results and relating them to the literature, it is worth pointing to certain similarities between the current results and the results of other studies. This similarity chiefly concerns the results confirming the frequent occurrence of relational traumas (psychological, physical, and sexual abuse) among people with bulimia and bulimic anorexia symptoms. On the other hand, the role of relational trauma and abuse has been frequently highlighted in previous studies on people with eating disorders.
